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INTERNSHIP HANDBOOK∗

ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMInternship Coordinator: Guillermo Delgado

Office 312, Social Sciences 1Phone: (831) 459-4684Email: guiller@ucsc.edu

Table of Contents:

1. Why and How 2

2. Frequently Asked Questions 3

3. Getting Started – Summary of Steps 4

4. Paperwork and Academic Requirements 5

5. Responsibilities: On the Job; Faculty Sponsor 6

6. Keeping a Journal 7

7. Analytical Paper 9

8. Appendix – Forms and Questionnaires 11

∗ Some of the information in this document was gathered and organized by RachelOchoa, and by the environmental sciences internship progam at UCSC,

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WHY and HOW∗

Why do an internship?

An internship is an important experience that will help you develop and refine your skillsand abilities. They may give you an opportunity to explore areas you are interested in fora career. It may lead you directly to a job or provide a place for networking, which willhelp your future career endeavors.

The work you're doing today will lead you in some way toward the work you will dotomorrow. Build the right work experience now, and you'll move closer to the rewards ofyour future career.

Internships help you apply your education.

Internships allow students to apply the concepts and theories they learn about inacademic settings to workplace settings. As an intern, you can see how people relate withone another, test out the theories learned in classes, and observe the inner workings of thework environment in a myriad of different fields and disciplines. Work done outside theclassroom brings new depth and meaning to the work done inside the classroom, andenlightens the student to the importance of their academic work.

Keep in mind that even if you are not sure what your career goals are, an inernship mayinspire you, and lead you toward a particular career or field of study. An internship canbe a process of personal exploration, wherein you can reflect on yourself and the worldaround you in a productive, hands-on manner. It allows you to put to work theories andresearch methods that you learned or are learning in your Anthropology courses.

∗ Some of the information in this document was gathered and organized by RachelOchoa, and by the environmental sciences internship progam at UCSC,

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FAQ

I want to do an internship. Where and how do I begin to go about it?

Attend one of the orientation session offered at the beginning of each quarter. Theseusually take place at the Ethnographic Library (SS1, #328) during the second week of thequarter. You will get this information via email at the start of the quarter.

Get in touch with the internship coordinator via email [(alk@ucsc.edu)] to schedule anappointment.

Can I get credit for an internship?

Yes! You may be able to get anywhere between 2 and 15 units of credit for an internship,depending on a variety of factors.If you apply for 2 credits you will be required to work 6-8 hours a week.If you apply for 5 credits you will be required to work 12-15 hours a week.

During which quarter is the internship offered?

All quarters, including summer.

When should I start planning my internship?

It's never too early to plan your internship. The more thought and preparation you putinto it, the better your learning experience will be. As a generalization, however, it is bestto plan your internship one full quarter before you plan to do it.Consult the Summary Steps in this handbook.

How do I find an internship?

The Anthropology Department website has many web links. The UCSC Career Centerwebsite has a great database of internships and very helpful staff. Community Studiesand Environmental Sciences have internship programs and a wide array of possibleinternships. They welcome anthropology students interested in their fields. Check theirwebsites and contact their coordinators.

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Getting Started – Summary of Steps

Step One: What are your interests and career/academic goals (see attached questionnaires in

the Appendix) Summarize these to develop your objective. Consult the Anthropology Coordinator if you need help or feel unclear.

Step Two: List your skills and abilities (Worksheet pdf)

Step Three: Find and choose and internship. Consult the Anthropology Department website for useful links; check the Career

Center website http://www2.ucsc.edu/careers/ , where you can find manyinternship possibilities; visit the Community Studies internship center (location:Oakes 218); do some research!

Step Four: Create a Resume/CV. The Career Center has excellent resources to assist you

(location: 305 Bay Tree Bldg.). They will help you revise your CV, they havefrequent workshops and will conduct mock interviews to help you.direct link: http://www2.ucsc.edu/careers/student/resume.html

Step Five: Contact the organizations you are interested in and find out detailed information.

Step Six: When you find a proper fit submit a resume. After you get your internship meet with the coordinator to work out the details

and process your forms with the department to get academic credit.

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Paperwork and Academic Requirements

The form you will have to fill out to receive Anthropology credit is called:Petition for Undergraduate Individual Studies Course.

You can find this form at the Anthropology Department office and the internshipcoordinator also has them.

An Anthropology internship is under the title of Anthropology 198

Two important considerations regarding Anthropology degree credits:1. You have the option of doing 2, 5,10 or 15 credits for the internship. However,

while you have the option of doing a 2 credit internship this will not transfer asupper division Anthropology credits. Only internships or courses worth 5 or morecredits are transferable to fulfill Anthropology credits. However you can receivegeneral credit for the 2 credit option.

2. Only one 5 credit course of either Anthro 198 (internship) or 199 (fieldstudies/Senior Thesis research) will count toward your Anthropology degreerequirements. If you are considering doing and Independent Senior Thesis aswell as an internship keep this in mind.

Even though only 5 credits of either of these two courses counts toward your Anthropology degree, they can count as general credit.

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Responsibilities

On the Job

* Set mutually satisfactory and feasible goals with agency and faculty sponsors. * Become an integral and participating member of the agency/institution staff. * Become familiar with agency policy and procedures and abide by all regulations. * Support the agency and its staff in any contacts with the public. * Notify the agency sponsor when you are unable to work. * Consult your supervisor when confronted with problems you cannot satisfactorily solve by yourself. * Set a positive standard for other interns to follow. * Complete work as outlined on the contract or work agreement.

Faculty Sponsor

* Be available to meet with the intern for consultation. * Provide guidance in focusing the final paper. * Meet at end of quarter to evaluate experience. * Write the final evaluation.

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Keeping a Journal

WHY KEEP A JOURNAL?

1. To RECORD your experience and save it if you forget the crucial details.2. To REFLECT on your experience and its connections with your life, learning, anddecisions for action.3. To ANALYZE your experience and its interactions with coursework and theory inyour field of study.

Taking the time to sit down and write about your activities, insights, and feelings is animportant part of your internship. Journal writing provides an opportunity to recordobservations about your experience, your readings, and your discussions with your fieldsupervisor, faculty sponsor, and internship coordinator. It challenges you to thinkcritically about your work and draw meaning from it. Journals are an excellent way toimprove and document your active, conscious reflections on your internship experience.

Your journal serves as a vehicle to tie all the pieces of the internship together as well as adocumentation of what has been learned. There's no point to writing something downmerely because it occurred; you write it down because it is in some way relevant.Rereading it can provide insights and understandings that serve as a foundation for bothyour final evaluative paper and your academic work.

How to Keep a Journal

Some Basics:

Set aside a scheduled time each day to write. It doesn't work to leave it for several daysand then try to catch up. Let your entries reflect what you are learning--about yourselfand about the internship. Record thoughts, questions, and critical incidents; leave outrambling descriptive-style entries that tell what you ate for breakfast, how you got to yourplacement site, who was there, and those very personal entries about yourself and thepeople with whom you are interacting that belong in a diary rather than an internshipjournal.

There are several ways to keep a good journal. Below are three techniques that you mayfind useful. Feel free to combine them, switch from one to another, or develop your own.

Observing and Analyzing: Informal Journal Keeping

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If you feel that you have a lot to say, then simply write. This is your space to recordmajor events, questions, discoveries, and feelings about your internship, as well as keep afactual record of any information you might want to record. Don't spend the whole entrydescribing your day, though. Note the parts that were important to you, and then moveon to your analysis of the situations and questions that you described.

Reflect on and analyze topics that concern you, and which will help you to clarify yourgoals, process the experience, and write your final paper.

Questioning Techniques

One useful technique to keep yourself actively involved in your experience and todevelop topics to write about, is to respond to questions. Questions about agencyorganization, relation of internship work to academics, power flows, ethical issues, andyour own learning are all excellent for thinking about yourself and your internship.

The idea is to participate and observe, to consciously examine aspects of your internshipthat you otherwise might ignore. Listed below are some questions that may help you inthis process. Feel free to develop your own, as well.

1. What was the most important thing I learned today?2. What critical issues surfaced that I want to think more about?3. What did I observe about how the agency’s philosophy affects the way people do

their jobs?5. What did I do when I needed help?6. What facts or terms do I want to remember?7. How did today’s work connect with my academic studies and my future plans?8. What attempt did I make to link my studies to my work? What opportunities did I

miss?9. What moral and ethical questions did I face or ignore?10. What human relations problems occurred? Could I have done anything to improve them?11. Did I hear any opinions or interpretations that differ from my own?12. What did I learn today about the impact my agency has on the local community?13. How would I change this day if I tried it again tomorrow?14. What goals have I set for tomorrow? Next week?

Try closing your journal entry each day with the one or two questions that are foremostin your mind (you don't need to answer these questions).

Think of an internship as an opportunity not only to explore professional possibilitiesbeyond school, but also as a chance to do fieldwork. The participant observation aspectof your work will be closely related to what you have been learning as an Anthropologymajor. This is a chance to experience how that knowledge is useful in a non-academic

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environment, how it translate in real life situations, and what it feels like to be in the“field”.

ANALYTICAL PAPER

The overall question that you are answering in this paper is “SO WHAT?” Sowhat that you did this internship? Whom does it affect? How might it be useful?How did your experience connect to your academic work? How did you grow?intellectually and/or personally? Remember that since your internship was ahighly individual experience, your paper will also be unique, addressing thosespecific topics and questions that concerned you. Also note that this is animportant means by which your faculty evaluates your academic performance,so include a short description of what you actually did daily, and then demonstrateyour analytical ability.

Be sure to thoroughly examine your journal for insights, connections, changes,small incidents that highlight larger issues, and common threads. Rely on yourjournal for a sense of perspective on the quarter; the more analytical of a journalyou kept, the easier this paper should be to write.

Finally, be literate! PROOFREAD AND SPELLCHECK!! This is crucial, becauseit is impossible to read a slovenly paper without judging it on appearance aswell as content. In some cases, mistakes even prevent the content from being

understood, and both your and your faculty person's time has been wasted.

OUTLINE SAMPLE

I. Description of internshipa. responsibilitiesb. skills learnedc. project descriptiond. problems encounterede. your expectations/goals: how and why they were or were not met

II. Analysis of internship in terms of two or more of the following:• agency organizational structure critique, including analysis of information channels, power structure• comparative analysis with similar project• critique of methodology/program design• analysis of the field (i.e.: planning, IPM, etc.) and how your project contributed

or related• what you learned, changes you experienced

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• ethical considerations/issues

III. Relationship of internship or project to academic literaturea. set your experiences in the field in the context of at least 2 articlesb. and/or relate your work to a specific theory you have learned in the classroom

IV. How internship related to academic worka. academic preparation

1. how prior academic experience related to field experience2. adequacy of academic preparation

b. future plans1. for coursework2. for career

V. Conclusions.

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Format Checklist

q Cover sheetq Title pageq Table of contentsq Text

q Introductionq Main textq Conclusion

q Bibliography

Optional Format Checklist

q Other front matter: acknowledgments, dedication, preface, and list of tables, figures, graphs or mapsq Other text components: literature review, background/history,

Case studies, results/findings, discussion, recommendations,perspectives

q Other back matter: epilogue/aftermath, recommended readings,footnotes, end notes, glossary, appendices

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Appendix

EVALUATION FORMS

Agency Evaluation for UCSC for Anthropology Internship

Student: Quarter: Agency Sponsor: Course no.:

No. of units:

Note: 12-15 hours perweek required per 5units (6 hours per 2units)

Please evaluate the student’s work in this internship. Be as specific as possible as towork quality, demonstrated initiative, follow through, and potential to work in this field.

This evaluation is a requirement of the student’s internship and must be returned by thestudent or emailed directly to: anthrointernships@ucsc.edu

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____________________________ _________________________Signature: Agency Sponsor Signature: Student

ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMSTUDENT EVALUATION OF INTERNSHIP

STUDENT: _______________________________________ QUARTER/YEAR:

AGENCY:_____________________________________________________________________

This evaluation report is designed to help the internship program give seriousconsideration to the student's impressions of the internship experience and to thecontinued use of that agency and sponsor.

This evaluation will be made available to other students interested in the same or similarplacements and your candid comments are appreciated.

1. Did the agency provide a receptive atmosphere for interns?

2. Did you have regularly scheduled times to talk with your agency sponsor? What wascovered? How effective were these meetings?

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3. Please evaluate your agency sponsor in the following categories: orientation toproject; availability; supervision given to you; and overall effectiveness.

4. What do you now know how to do that you couldn't do before your internship?

5. How does this internship relate to your coursework?

6. How has this internship affected your career plans?

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7. Would you recommend that we offer/not offer this placement next year? Explainfully.

8. Did you come across other internship opportunities that we could develop forstudents? Please give agency name, address, phone number and contact person.

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ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Questionaire 1: Interests and Academic/Career Goals

Answer the following questions to the best of your ability to help you articulate the kindof internship that would work best for you. You can write as much or as little as you feelis necessary, as long as you are clear about your objectives.

After you answer the questions, summarize your response in a written statement.

1) List and Evaluate your Personal Interests:a) What are your hobbies:b) What do you do for entertainment?c) What are you interested in that you have not yet had the opportunity to

experience?

2) Academic Interests:a) What drew you to Anthropology?b) Are you in an intensive track (cultural, physical or archaeology)?c) If doing the standard track, are you interested in a specific sub-discipline?d) Do you have a minor or a second major? How does it compliment your anthropology major? Are you interested in combining the two? How?

3) Career Goals:a) What career do you see yourself in? Short or long term.b) Do you want to work with a specific group or in a specific geographical area (e.g. working with youth, a particular minority group, in Africa or Latin America)?

4) Reflect on Career Goals:a) How do you want to spend your average work day in five years? In an office? In the field? In grad school?b) What are your financial needs or hopes?

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c) What skills and experience will you need?

Exercise:

After brainstorming, write an analysis of your interests, academic and career goals.Come up with a clear statement about your objectives for an internship.

• After brainstorming and writing circle any key words (words that seemimportant to you).

• List them. Then examine them for grouping and/or priorities.

• Rewrite your objective statement based on this second round of thinking andorganizing.

• Examine the statement for clarity. By the end of this exercise, which mighttake some time, you should be clear about what you want.

• Try your statement on other people. Do they understand it?

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ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Questionnaire 2: Choosing an Internship

To help you research and choose an internship, answer the following questions:

• How will the internship fit into your academic and career plans?

• What skills do you want to gain from an internship?

• Do you want a local, national or international internship?

• What experience are you looking for, and in what field?

• Consider your personal values: what work do you feel needs to be done?

• Do you want to work in a team or independently?

• Do you like to work under supervision?

Examples of Skills and Abilities Developed in Anthropology:

• Understanding communication patterns• Analyzing cultural values• Analyzing expressive culture• Understanding social relations• Understanding hierarchy and power and their larger implications• Analyzing and considering the impact of race, class and gender• Developing interview questions and conducting formal and informal interviews• Transcribing field notes• Meeting deadlines

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• Designing research projects and applying for grants• Doing research and writing• Orally presenting research results